Gameloft Shifts Policy on Android Game Store

June 1, 2010

You may remember our recent story on Gameloft's horrible policy regard Android games (one time purchase with no chance of getting a new copy of the game if something should go awry with the data on your Android device); Well apparently public scrutiny of that policy has caused Gameloft to adjust its position. Gameloft has announced that its policy regarding Android HD+ games sold through its store has been changed to allow customers to re-download a game that they have already paid for.

Gameloft’s original policy did not allow consumers to re-download games they already purchased through the website for any Android device regardless of the reason. If you had data problems or upgraded your phone, you would not be able to re-install the games you have purchased from Gameloft. Instead you would have to re-purchase those games or go without.

Gameloft says that these changes will take some time to implement.

Source: Android Police

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Comments

Re: Gameloft Shifts Policy on Android Game Store

Submitted by killatia on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 12:06.

thank you for making these changes Gameloft.

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Re: Gameloft Shifts Policy on Android Game Store

Submitted by E. Zachary Knight on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 11:35.

Nothing like a good public shaming to get a company to change anti-consumer policies.

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Re: Gameloft Shifts Policy on Android Game Store

Submitted by axiomatic on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 11:06.

Sounds to me more like Gamelofts development team are lazy to the point that they tried to "policy" their way out of doing good coding work.

Re: Gameloft Shifts Policy on Android Game Store

Submitted by ZippyDSMlee on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 09:57.

sanity, is it really that hard to implement?

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